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  1. Driftless

    Magnum's naval PoD's. Ep. 7 - Danish navy puts up a fight in 1940

    Green crews against green crews. The Danes get a torpedo or two into one of the German ships. If they're lucky it's one of the pre-dreads. With the small torpedos, that might not be enough to sink the bigger ships outright, but it might be enough where the Germans are forced to beach the ship...
  2. GenghisKhanfan

    WI: ATL Congress of Vienna partition of Poland

    Ideally, considering that such a partition would likely infuriate the Prussians, not to mention shock the British and French, this kind of partition would likely not happen. Britain would not want to have to compete with a Russia now further strengthened with additional Baltic ports. Prussia...
  3. SealTheRealDeal

    WI: East German Cultural Revolution

    No, post-Stalin the USSR and its client states had a vested interest in being boring. Depends, the Soviets were willing to tolerate quite a bit of internal insanity (see: Nicolae Ceaușescu's National Communism). If the SED tries spreading its dysfunction, questioning the USSR's leadership of...
  4. Horse mounted infantry for COIN

    You're talking about a single horse. I'm talking about horse mounted units. The same thing true for a single horse and rider isn't true for a hundred horses and riders.
  5. AHC: Sweden wins the Great Northern War

    Yes, after his initial successes Charles became quite popular in the Western Europe and perhaps even somewhat overestimated. The Swedish army probably had the most aggressive tactics at that time (a plus) but, OTOH, it was under supplied with the artillery and it is anybody’s guess how would it...
  6. WI Hitler Wrote a More Readable Book Than Mein Kampf?

    This is actually interesting. I read Stormfront (definitely not as a fan, more because I believe knowing what the enemy is up to is useful for your own self-defense), and they have a lot of posts which could legitimately be considered a form of self-help (though to strengthen themselves for a...
  7. TapReflex

    Let There Be Light! The Illumination of a World in Darkness
    Threadmarks: Team Chat 1

    We here at World Factbook 2076 are pleased to greet you, denizens of the past! We are working diligently to assemble [/SPOILER] maps that will make some sense to the World pre-World War 3. We've been given this opportunity and are thrilled not to waste it! However, we note that our team is small...
  8. Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    Germany hardly has any territory in the far East that's worth taking, if anything. The Japanese are eyeing (most likely) Dutch and English territory. They already have a bad relation with France concerning Indochina and they know that a war with Britain is considerably more winnable if they're...
  9. BELFAST

    at U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, northern states engage in brinksmanship and get deal on phase out of slavery by southern states

    No. Poor white people in the British isles were the cannon fodder that helped take and hold the empire. Just being poor and homeless could get you a one-way ticket to convict labour about in new south wales etc. The landed gentry were the big winners. What improved the lives of working people...
  10. kasumigenx

    AHC: Make the Romansh Switzerland's dominant ethnic group

    Another POD would be having Lombard Italy not conquered by the Carolingians.
  11. Alamgirnama: A Mughal Timeline
    Threadmarks: 29. Franco-Mughal Relations plus Gardens and stuff

    The Versailles-Shahjahanabad Axis: In Charbaghs and Chintz "Louis XIV's relations with the Mughal court" by Ebba Koch In 1626, late in the reign of Jahangir, the emperor had expressed the desire to send ambassadors to Europe to buy curiosities and it makes for a fascinating counterfactual...
  12. Kantai Kessen

    WI: Gneisenau on Operation Rheinübung?

    If Gneisenau is believed to be in the area and threatening WS 8B, then what might happen is that Home Fleet is assigned to hunt down Bismarck and Force H is sent after Gneisenau. In which the famous rudder hit might not happen, and the destroyers may not be diverted to fight Bismarck. OTOH, this...
  13. AHC: Sweden wins the Great Northern War

    It is true that Charles was fighting, at least from his own perspective, a defensive war. The fundamental problem for him was that with its “Baltic Empire” Sweden was stepping on too many toes. Even if he was a better strategist, he was still facing too big odds. Actually, his OTL strategy was...
  14. Aghasverov

    AH Challenge: A Third Rome in 1830?

    Yeah, I thought it was a little unlikely myself :)
  15. Magnum's naval PoD's. Ep. 7 - Danish navy puts up a fight in 1940

    So, show of hands, who thinks the Germans will beat off the Danes, and who thinks the Danes can close the distance and put some torpedoes into the German pre-dreadnaughts?
  16. What if Taiwan had been a classical addition to China, not an early modern addition?

    I would imagine that the Austronesian natives would have been assimilated far earlier, and the Sinicized population would be very similar to the people in Fujian itself, or in Guangdong or Hainan. Perhaps Taiwan would have had a greater population earlier on, but then again I think even Hainan...
  17. The Revenge of the Crown : An Alternate 1812 and Beyond.

    A 20th century world war, North American theatre?
  18. at U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, northern states engage in brinksmanship and get deal on phase out of slavery by southern states

    Yep, this is true. There was an absolutely massive movement of slaves westward into the Mississippi territory and Tennessee from the Old South. The book I recommended goes into it pretty in depth. It was a combination of both factors, Westward movement/the internal slave trade and economic...
  19. With a POD in October 1918, how much longer can WWI last?

    Perhaps if they navy stayed in port the Germans could hold out until April 1919. Secure the Brenner pass for starters, the Italians may well be happy roundup prisoners' securing their share of Dalmatia, without having to fight the Germans to push into Bavaria anytime soon. The Allies might be...
  20. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    My understanding of the primary effect of stealth, in RL, is not "plane is invisible to radar while in full function" but rather "plane is sufficiently weakly reflecting that a relatively weak radar of an AAM doesn't get a proper lock". The ground based passive radars can nowadays detect even...
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